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Constituency

66. Khargram

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 1996

WB-KHARGRAM

CPM 48.0%won by 3.0%INC 45.0%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.0% to 3.0%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 82.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,27,966
Margin
3,824
2.99%

Candidates

6 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1BISWANATH MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,36948.0%
  2. 2MADHAB CHANDRA MARJITIndian National Congress · INC57,54545.0%
  3. 3SATYANDRA NATH MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,3475.7%
  4. 4SADHAN MARJITCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,0540.8%
  5. 5SRIMANTA MANDALIndependent · IND4060.3%
  6. 6ANANDA DALUIFBS · FBS2450.2%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−6.1%
CPM share
45.8% → 48.0%
INC share
36.8% → 45.0%
Turnout
— → —
65. Kandi67. Barwan
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